Lighting Designer

We are looking for a creative Lighting Designer to join our established team in London or Edinburgh. This is a great opportunity to work on some truly amazing projects around the world along with a diverse mix of schemes in the UK.

Buro Happold are at the forefront of change, pushing everyone in our industry to embrace and achieve Net Zero. Our well-established Lighting team has a crucial contributing role in the preservation of energy, the reduction of carbon emissions and the overall protection of the environment through conscious and innovative design.

Buro Happold’s lighting team provide a complete lighting design service, from concept to commissioning, in which creative thinking is balanced with a solid understanding of technical, environmental, and socio-economic principles to meet our clients KPIs and for the benefit of local communities globally.

Due to the ongoing growth of our portfolio of outstanding projects, our team has an opportunity for an intermediate Lighting Designer. Working with Lighting professionals from a variety of backgrounds, you will have the opportunity to use and advance your skills within our friendly, close-knit team. Recent projects are broad in range and location and include the award winning English National Ballet (ENB), the Piece Hall in Halifax, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club -THFC, the Louvre Abu Dhabiand Sustainability focused projects (such as Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion).

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

Your next role

Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything - from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to our fantastic Lighting team.

Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.

You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.

Key duties
- Support work production as instructed by Senior/ Associate Designers.
- Provide a high quality informed technical lighting design and creative lighting design to projects.
- Present at Design Team meetings and liaising with project design teams when required.
- Prepare and take responsibility for design work from Concept and preliminary studies through Detail design for Tender.
- Production of design materials, such as concept design documents, design notes, report writing, AutoCAD drawings/ Revit 3D + details and technical luminaire specifications.
- Provide professional lighting layouts, sections and details using AutoCAD or Revit to allow a clear understanding of the concept principles.
- Carry out sustainability studies for lighting equipment options to inform/ validate the design proposals.
- Review of accurate quote information and detailed installation, commissioning, and operational information by others.
- Ensure senior staff are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and challenges. And ensuring all relevant BH staff are informed of client matters.
- Quality Assurance (QA) and continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy, and services represent the client’s best interests and that BH policy is in keeping with current legislation, International and British Standards and Codes of Practice etc.

Your skills and experience
- Solid foundation of relevant professional experience (4 years minimum) in the lighting design industry or equivalent.
- Demonstrable track record of designing and delivering high level creative and technical designs for a variety of projects across various sectors, including interior and exterior artificial lighting and daylight design.
- Must be creative and have a sound technical knowledge of lighting and product specification.
- Have advanced design, calculations and relevant codes/ regulations knowledge.
- Proficient in creative suite, illustrations, and free hand drawing skills
- Software skills must include: Dialux, Relux, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft OS, AutoCAD and BIM/ Revit
- Work competently on an independent and team basis with good time management.
- A positive and proactive attitude towards meeting multiple project deadlines and working in an integrated manner within a multi-disciplinary environment is essential.
- Association with at least one of the main lighting bodies, including relevant